One can only imagine the backlash if a sitcom or teen drama had the moral busybody character, instead of raising money for the environment, raise money to help a woman choose to carry a child to term and get it adopted. https://twitter.com/PaperworkKing/status/1264245501718704128 …
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This is so true. I have always wondered why they never show us the ''OMG that stranger who I just met and fkd creampied me-what should I do?' episode.
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Now that would be “A Very Special Episode.”
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I think in the 80s they had some abortion episodes, but they quickly realized it's better not to present it as a moral dilemma at all.
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90s too. They’d usually dodge it by false alarms or miscarriages.
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I don’t know how the percentage of women who consider abortion in real life compares to women who consider abortion on screen. But this database is interesting. Anectotally, I’ve seen the “considering abortion” storyline a lot more in the last few years. https://www.ansirh.org/research/abortion-onscreen-database?title=&body_value=&field_onscreen_media_type_value=All&field_onscreen_genre_value=All&field_onscreen_legality_value=All&field_onscreen_age_value=All&field_onscreen_race_value=All&field_onscreen_outcome_category_value=All&field_onscreen_location_category_value=All&field_onscreen_release_date_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_onscreen_release_date_value%5Bmax%5D=&field_onscreen_time_period_cat_value=All&order=field_onscreen_release_date_1&sort=desc …
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i think Juno was a decent movie about this dilemma
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just watched first two seasons of Twin Peaks. It stood out to me when Dick tried to give Lucy money for an abortion and she strongly rejected it. I dont think I'd note it if not for your first tweet
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